Editorial: Visual Language

Editorial: Language, Cognition, and Gender

Gender inequality remains a contentious issue in many societies, despite legislative, and other less formal attempts to tackle it. It is perpetuated, in part, by gender stereotyping. Previous research indicates that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Genderrelated information is transmitted through formal and semantic features of language, such as the grammatical categor...

Editorial: Language Acquisition and Evolution

EDITORIAL Brain, Mind and Language Functional Architectures

The interaction between brain and language has been investigated by a vast amount of research and different approaches, which however do not offer a comprehensive and unified theoretical framework to analyze how brain functioning performs the mental processes we use in producing language and in understanding speech. This Special Issue addresses the need to develop such a general theoretical fra...

Editorial: Abstracts in your native language.

We decided earlier this year to trial the idea that authors be encouraged to write two Abstracts for their papers, one in their preferred native-language and one in English. For the purposes of this trial, German was picked as the native language. The Editors and Publishers have over the years observed that nuances, which sometimes are very important, can be lost or obscured if the author of a ...

Editorial: Language Development in the Digital Age

The digital age is changing our children’s lives and childhood dramatically. New technologies transform the way people interact with each other, the way stories are shared and distributed, and the way reality is presented and perceived. Parents experience that toddlers can handle tablets and apps with a level of sophistication the children’s grandparents can only envy. In Great Britain, a recen...